Tech-abuse continues to be a growing problem for many people. Cyberbullying and online stalking remain a widespread issue among internet users — particularly women — and theyre forced to think about it on a day-to-day basis. One issue women often face is doxing — the collection and publication of personal show more ...
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About three-quarters of Java and .NET applications have vulnerabilities from the OWASP Top 10 list, while only 55% of JavaScript codebases have such flaws, according to testing data.
The Series C round was led by Empyrean Technology Solutions, a space technology platform backed by funds affiliated with Madison Dearborn Partners. The round included additional investment from Method Capital and OCA Ventures.
Over one in four (26%) British SMBs have been targeted by ransomware over the past year, with half (47%) of those compromised paying their extorters, according to new data from Avast.
From gaining initial access to compromising the Active Directory domain of an unnamed target within 24 hours, a new IcedID malware attack was seen to be even more promising for hackers. The attackers used ISO and LNK files instead of traditional phishing-based attacks and delivered macro-based documents. They executed the same Cobalt Strike Beacon in all compromised workstations.
European cops arrested 15 suspected scammers and shut down a multi-country network of call centers selling fake cryptocurrency that law enforcement said stole upwards of hundreds of millions of dollars from victims.
About 77% of IT decision-makers across the United States and Canada believe their companies are likely to face a data breach within the next three years according to survey results released by Adastra.
The defacement text is ambiguous as to whether the hackers exfiltrated data from ODIN’s systems or if, as it claims, “all data and backups have been shredded,” suggesting that there may have been an attempt to erase the company’s stores of data.
A new analysis of Raspberry Robin by cybersecurity firm SEKOIA found that threat actors can repurpose their command-and-control (C2) infrastructure to infect more servers. Hackers used compromised QNAP NAS devices resolved by domain names as its first C2 level, as a validator and forwarder. The initially compromised servers act as forward proxies to the next as-yet-unknown tier.
France's data protection authority (CNIL) has fined TikTok UK and TikTok Ireland €5,000,000 (~$5.42 million) for making it difficult for users of the platform to refuse cookies and for not sufficiently informing them about their purpose.
Unidentified cybercriminals were observed working through a new malicious backdoor that borrows its features from the U.S. CIA's Hive multi-platform malware suite. Named Xdr33, the new variant of the HIVE kit collects sensitive information and provides a foothold for subsequent intrusions.
Thousands of Norton LifeLock customers had their accounts compromised in recent weeks, potentially allowing criminal hackers access to customer password managers, the company revealed in a recent data breach notice.
A new Zapata Computing report reveals a deepening commitment from enterprises that points to a maturing industry with widespread, global interest and increased urgency regarding post-quantum cybersecurity threats.
Gootkit loader aka Gootloader resurfaced in a new spate of attacks that targeted the Australian healthcare industry. The malware operators leveraged SEO poisoning attacks for initial access. To push the infection to the next phase, the loader abused legitimate applications like VLC Media Player. Security teams in show more ...
Various individuals have been observed, for instance, discussing how to use stolen payment cards to pay for upgraded users on OpenAI (thus circumventing the limitations of free accounts).
Sigstore community today announced the first stable release of sigstore-python, improving software supply chain security and paving the way for other client implementations of Sigstore that are in earlier stages.
The five-round championship, which culminates in a live 24-hour finale, is ending on a sour note after server problems saw Verstappen - who was leading the race by over a minute - thrown out of the game and disconnected.
The US Department of Defense (DoD) is getting ready to launch the third installment of its ‘Hack the Pentagon’ bug bounty program, which will focus on the Facility Related Controls System (FRCS) network.
The hacktivist group known as GhostSec claims to have conducted the first-ever ransomware attack against a remote terminal unit (RTU), a type of ICS device used for communications between field devices and SCADA systems.
The infection chain "uses about a hundred of fake cracked software catalog websites that redirect to several links before downloading the payload hosted on file share platforms, such as GitHub," cybersecurity firm SEKOIA said.
The data of the Israeli company and of another Swedish forensics firm, MSAB, have been leaked online by the Enlace Hacktivista collective, with the support of a whistleblower, and later through the DDoSecrets platform.
Full encryption methods such as S/MIME and PGP/GPG enable complete confidentiality where only the recipient can decrypt the email message due to the possibility of verifying the sender’s identity.
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has released several Industrial Control Systems (ICS) advisories warning of critical security flaws affecting products from Sewio, InHand Networks, Sauter Controls, and Siemens.
Victims of a massive investment fraud scheme are set to receive restitution. Around 800 individuals residing in over 40 countries worldwide will benefit from the federal district court order issued in San Diego at the end of last week.
Bitdefender security analysts stumbled across a malware threat campaign dropping EyeSpy spyware. It is originally considered to be a part of a monitoring application called SecondEye. The campaign appears to have begun in May last year from Iran, with infections detected across Germany and the U.S. Experts recommend genuine VPN solutions downloaded via official websites.
Shields Health Care Group, a prominent Massachusetts-based medical imaging services provider, is facing proposed class action lawsuits in federal and state court stemming from a 2022 breach that affected 2 million individuals.
MetaMask, the cryptocurrency wallet provider, disclosed a new scam baiting its users into sending funds to scammers’ wallet addresses. The address poisoning technique used by scammers relies on similarity to the original recipients’ addresses. Creating an address that closely matches a target address takes less than a minute, revealed experts.
With SecZetta, SailPoint will be able to expand its capabilities to help companies gain better visibility into all types of identities, across both employee and non-employee identities all from a single, market-leading identity security platform.
BianLian (not to be confused with the same-name Android banking trojan) is a Go-based ransomware hitting Windows systems. It uses the symmetric AES-256 algorithm with the CBC cipher mode to encrypt over 1013 file extensions on all accessible drives.
Sophos reported that the Cuba ransomware group used malicious hardware devices certified by Microsoft’s Windows Hardware Developer Program in an attack that abuses OWASSRF vulnerability.
LockBitSupp’s focus on professionalizing the group is part of the reason why Lockbit has found such success in the cybercriminal world – the group accounted for 44 percent of the total ransomware attacks launched last year.
Unidentified threat actors have deployed a new backdoor that borrows its features from the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)'s Hive multi-platform malware suite, the source code of which was released by WikiLeaks in November 2017. "This is the first time we caught a variant of the CIA Hive attack kit in the wild, and we named it xdr33 based on its embedded Bot-side certificate CN=xdr33,"
A "large and resilient infrastructure" comprising over 250 domains is being used to distribute information-stealing malware such as Raccoon and Vidar since early 2020. The infection chain "uses about a hundred of fake cracked software catalogue websites that redirect to several links before downloading the payload hosted on file share platforms, such as GitHub," cybersecurity firm SEKOIA said in
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The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has released several Industrial Control Systems (ICS) advisories warning of critical security flaws affecting products from Sewio, InHand Networks, Sauter Controls, and Siemens. The most severe of the flaws relate to Sewio's RTLS Studio, which could be exploited by an attacker to "obtain unauthorized access to the server, alter
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A security breach may have cost current Formula 1 World Champion Max Verstappen an esports championship victory yesterday, and he's not happy. Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
